Transmission method for common message and device

ABSTRACT

The present disclosure provides a transmission method for a common message and a device, which relates to a field of communication technologies and is invented for effectively ensuring that both a low cost MTC terminal and a normal LTE terminal may reliably receive the common message. The transmission method for the common message includes: determining common message transmission time instances corresponding to a first terminal, wherein the common message transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal are a part of time instances of cell common message transmission time instances; sending a common message at the determined common message transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the common message being no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting. The present disclosure may be used in an M2M application based on an LTE network.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of International Application No.PCT/CN2012/081778, filed on Sep. 21, 2012, which is hereby incorporatedby reference in its entirety.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to a field of communication technologies,in particular to a transmission method for a common message and adevice.

BACKGROUND

In a radio communication system, a common message system information, apaging message or a random access response message which is broadcast ormulticast to a terminal (UE, User Equipment) by a base station. The UEneeds to receive the common message sent by the base station to acquireparameter configuration of a cell, so as to perform normal communicationwith the base station. Therefore, it is quite important that the UEreliably receives the common message sent by the base station.

In order to lower the cost of using a long term evolution (LTE) networkin a machine-to-machine (M2M) application to massively develop the M2Mapplication based on the LTE network, a low cost machine typecommunication (MTC) terminal (Low cost MTC UE) based on LTE draws greatattention. Compared with the existing normal LTE terminal, the receivingbandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capable of supporting isdecreased, thus the low cost MTC terminal may only process data, controlinformation and/or a reference signal within a smaller bandwidth, e.g.1.4 MHz, 3 MHz or 5 MHz. Therefore, the cost of a radio frequency and abaseband of the low cost MTC terminal is lowered obviously.

In the case that the low cost MTC terminal and the normal LTE terminalare arranged in the LTE network at the same time, both the low cost MTCterminal and the normal LTE terminal need to receive the common messagesent by the base station. As the data processing bandwidth that the lowcost MTC terminal is capable of supporting is smaller, the low cost MTCterminal may only process the data, the control information and/or thereference signal within a smaller bandwidth. Therefore, it is a problemto be solved how to effectively ensure that both the low cost MTCterminal and the normal LTE terminal are capable of receiving the commonmessage reliably.

SUMMARY

A primary objective of embodiments of the present disclosure is toprovide a transmission method for a common message and a device, whichmay effectively ensure that both a low cost MTC terminal and a normalLTE terminal are capable of receiving the common message reliably.

To achieve the above objective, the embodiments of the presentdisclosure adopt the following technical solutions.

In one aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides atransmission method for a common message, including:

determining common message transmission time instances corresponding toa first terminal, wherein the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal are a part of time instances of cellcommon message transmission time instances;sending a common message at the determined common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal, a bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message being no largerthan a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, so that both the first terminal and a second terminal arecapable of receiving the common message at the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, whereina data processing bandwidth that the second terminal is capable ofsupporting is larger than the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting.

In one aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides atransmission method for a common message, including:

determining, by a first terminal, common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal, wherein the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalare a part of time instances of cell common message transmission timeinstances;receiving, by the first terminal, a common message sent by a basestation at the determined common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, wherein a bandwidth of frequencyresources used for sending the common message by the base station is nolarger than a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal iscapable of supporting.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides abase station, including:

a time instance determining unit, configured to determine common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to a first terminal, whereinthe common message transmission time instances corresponding to thefirst terminal are a part of time instances of cell common messagetransmission time instances;a sending unit, configured to send a common message at the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminaldetermined by the time instance determining unit, a bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message being no largerthan a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, so that both the first terminal and a second terminal arecapable of receiving the common message at the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, whereina data processing bandwidth that the second terminal is capable ofsupporting is larger than the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure provides aterminal equipment which may serve as the first terminal in theaforementioned method embodiments, including:

a time instance determining unit, configured to determine common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the terminal equipment,wherein the common message transmission time instances corresponding tothe terminal equipment are a part of time instances of cell commonmessage transmission time instances; anda receiving unit, configured to receive a common message sent by a basestation at the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the terminal equipment determined by the time instance determiningunit, wherein a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending thecommon message by the base station is no larger than a data processingbandwidth that the terminal equipment is capable of supporting.

According to the transmission method for the common message, the basestation and the terminal equipment provided by the embodiments of thepresent disclosure, a part of time instances of the cell common messagetransmission time instances are taken as the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal; when the basestation sends the common message at these time instances, the usedbandwidth of frequency resources is no larger than the data processingbandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting, therefore,reliable reception of the common message of the first terminal may beensured effectively; and the second terminal may also receive the commonmessage reliably at these time instances, and apparently, the secondterminal may also receive the common message at the other time instancesof the cell common transmission time instances apart from the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal,therefore, reliable reception of the common message of the secondterminal may also be ensured effectively. When the first terminal is alow cost MTC terminal and the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal,the transmission method for the common message, the base station and theterminal equipment provided by the embodiments of the present disclosuremay effectively ensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and thenormal LTE terminal may reliably receive the common message.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure also providesa transmission method for a common message, including:

sending a first common message corresponding to a first terminal; and

sending a second common message corresponding to a second terminal,wherein the first common message is a common message obtained bysimplifying the content of the second common message, and a dataprocessing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting issmaller than a data processing bandwidth that the second terminal iscapable of supporting.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure also providesa transmission method for a common message, including:

receiving, by a first terminal, a first common message sent by a basestation, the first common message being a common message obtained bysimplifying the content of a common message sent to a second terminal bythe base station, wherein a data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting is smaller than a data processingbandwidth that the second terminal is capable of supporting.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure also providesa base station, including:

a sending unit, configured to send a first common message correspondingto a first terminal and send a second common message corresponding to asecond terminal, wherein the first common message is a common messageobtained by simplifying the content of the second common message, and adata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting is smaller than a data processing bandwidth that the secondterminal is capable of supporting.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure also providesa terminal equipment which may serve as the first terminal in theprevious transmission method, including:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a first common message sent by abase station, the first common message being a common message obtainedby simplifying the content of a common message sent to a second terminalby the base station, wherein a data processing bandwidth that theterminal equipment is capable of supporting is smaller than a dataprocessing bandwidth that the second terminal is capable of supporting.

According to the transmission method for the common message, the basestation and the terminal equipment provided by the embodiments of thepresent disclosure, the base station sends the common message to thefirst terminal and the second terminal, the common message sent to thefirst terminal is simplified compared with the common message sent tothe second terminal, and the demand on the data processing bandwidththat the first terminal is capable of supporting is met, therefore,reliable reception of the common message of the first terminal and thesecond terminal may be ensured effectively. When the first terminal is alow cost MTC terminal and the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal,the transmission method for the common message, the base station and theterminal equipment provided by the embodiments of the present disclosuremay effectively ensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and thenormal LTE terminal may reliably receive the common message.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In order to illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of thepresent disclosure or in the prior art more clearly, a briefintroduction on the accompanying drawings which are needed in thedescription of the embodiments or the prior art is given below.Apparently, the accompanying drawings in the description below are someof the embodiments of the present disclosure, based on which otherdrawings can be acquired by the persons of ordinary skill in the artwithout any inventive efforts.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure when the commonmessage is a SIB1 message.

FIG. 4 is an exemplary schematic diagram of transmission time instancesof the SIB1 in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure when the commonmessage is SI.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure when the commonmessage is a RAR.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart of a transmission method for a common messageprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure when the commonmessage is a Paging.

FIG. 8 is a structural block diagram of a base station provided by anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a structural block diagram of a base station provided by anembodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a structural block diagram of a terminal equipment providedby an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 11 is a structural block diagram of a terminal equipment providedby an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of another transmission method for a commonmessage provided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 13 is a structural block diagram of another base station providedby an embodiment of the present disclosure.

FIG. 14 is a structural block diagram of another terminal equipmentprovided by an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

A clear and complete description of technical solutions of theembodiments of the present disclosure will be given below, incombination with the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of thepresent disclosure. Apparently, the embodiments described below aremerely a part, but not all, of the embodiments of the presentdisclosure. All of other embodiments, obtained by those skilled in theart based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without anyinventive efforts, fall into the protection scope of the presentdisclosure.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a transmission methodfor a common message, being executed by a base station, and as shown inFIG. 1, including the following steps.

101, the base station determines common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to a first terminal, wherein the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal are apart of time instances of cell common message transmission timeinstances.

When the base station needs to broadcast or multicast a common messageto terminals in the coverage of a present cell, for each common message,the base station broadcasts or multicasts the common message to theterminals in the coverage of the cell at several time instances. In theembodiment of the present disclosure, the several time instances arecalled as the cell common message transmission time instances.

In the embodiment of the present disclosure, in order to effectivelyensure that the first terminal is capable of receiving the commonmessage reliably, a part of time instances of the cell common messagetransmission time instances are taken as the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal, and the base stationmay send the common message to the first terminal at this part timeinstances.

Specifically, in this step, the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal are preset properly, andthe base station may determine the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal according to presetting.

For example, each time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal may be one subframe, ormay also be multiple subframes, e.g., a transmission window including atleast one subframe.

102, the base station sends a common message at the determined commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal,wherein a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the commonmessage is no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting.

In this step, when the base station sends the common message at thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, the transmission of the common message is scheduledrestrictively within the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting, hence, the first terminal is capableof receiving the common message at the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding the first terminal and the reliability ofreceiving the common message may be ensured effectively.

It shall be noted that, in the case that each time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal includes at least one subframe, in this step, when the basestation sends the common message at each common message transmissiontime instance corresponding to the first terminal, the bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message in all thesubframes of the time instance may be limited to be no larger than thedata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, or only the bandwidth of frequency resources used forsending the common message in a part of subframes of the time instancemay be limited to be no larger than the data processing bandwidth thatthe first terminal is capable of supporting, while the bandwidth of theother part of subframes is not limited.

It may be understood that, if a second terminal that is capable ofsupporting a data processing bandwidth that is larger than that thefirst terminal is capable of supporting also exists in the coverage ofthe cell served by the base station, at the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal, as the bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message is no largerthan the data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, and the data processing bandwidth that the second terminalis capable of supporting is larger than the data processing bandwidththat the first terminal is capable of supporting, the second terminalmay also receive the common message at the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal.

It may also be understood that, the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal are a part of timeinstances of the cell common message transmission time instances, so inaddition to that, the base station also sends a common message at othertime instances of the cell common message transmission time instances,so that the second terminal is capable of receiving the common messageat these other time instances. In the embodiment of the presentdisclosure, the bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending thecommon message at these other time instances is not limited and may beany bandwidth. Preferably, the bandwidth of frequency resources used forsending the common message at these other time instances is larger thanthe data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, so as to effectively improve the reliability of receivingthe common message by the second terminal.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the firstterminal may be a low cost MTC terminal and the second terminal is anormal LTE terminal Apparently, the first terminal and the secondterminal are not limited by the embodiments of the present disclosure,and may also be other categories of terminals.

Specifically, the common message transmitted in the embodiment of thepresent disclosure may be a system information block 1 (SIB1) message,system information (SI), a paging message, or a random access response(RAR) message.

For example, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, applying to acommon message sent cyclically, e.g. the SIB1, the SI or the Pagingmessage, the transmission method for the common message further includesthe following steps.

The base station presets a common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal and a start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal.

In this case, in step 101, the base station determines the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to the preset common message transmission period correspondingto the first terminal and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, a start timeinstance of a common message may be a start subframe time instanceand/or a start frame time instance of the common message. The startsubframe time instance means a subframe starting point of thetransmission of the common message in a certain radio frame; and thestart frame time instance indicates in which radio frame the commonmessage is transmitted, or is for indirectly determining the dependencyrelationship between the transmission frame for the transmission of thecommon message and the start frame time instance. The start subframetime instance and/or the start frame time instance may be notifiedthrough signaling, or dictated properly by a system, or determinedaccording to a certain particular functional relation.

With respect to a certain common message, the start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal is the same as a start time instance of the cell common messagetransmission time instances, but the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal is different from a cell commonmessage transmission period, and the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal is larger than the cell commonmessage transmission period, so as to ensure that the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal are apart of time instances of the cell common message transmission timeinstances. Of course, it may be understood by those skilled in the artthat the start time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal may also be different fromthe start time instance of the cell common message transmission timeinstances.

The cell common message transmission period means, for a certain commonmessage, a transmission period at the cell level corresponding to thecommon message, which is a time interval between the neighbouring cellcommon message transmission time instances of the common message. Thatis to say, the base station sends the common message once at an intervalof the cell common message transmission period of the common message.Taking the SIB1 as an example, the base station sends the SIB1 onceevery 20 milliseconds (ms), i.e., the cell common message transmissionperiod of the SIB1 is 20 ms, and the SIB1 transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal may be preset to be 160 ms, whichmeans that, at a certain SIB1 transmission time instance correspondingto the first terminal, the bandwidth of frequency resources used forsending the SIB1 by the base station is no larger than the dataprocessing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting,and after an interval of 160 ms, when the base station sends the SIB1,the used bandwidth of frequency resources is scheduled to be no largerthan the data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting once again.

Further, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the transmissionmethod for the common message further includes:

sending to the first terminal a notification indicating the commonmessage transmission period corresponding to the first terminal and/orthe start time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal.

Specifically, the base station may send the above-mentioned notificationto the first terminal through radio resource control (RRC) signaling.

For the first terminal, of both the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal and the start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, one may be preset properly, while the other one is notified bythe base station, and of course, both of them may also be notified bythe base station, so that the first terminal may determine the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding the first terminalaccording to the common message transmission period corresponding to thefirst terminal and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, andreceive the common message at the time instances.

Specifically, e.g. for the SIB1 common message, the base station maydetermine the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal according to the following steps.

1) The system dictates that the SIB1 common message may be sent only inNo. 5 subframe in a radio frame, therefore, the start subframe timeinstance S of the SIB1 common message is 5.

2) The system dictates that the start radio frame time instance N of theSIB1 common message is No. 0 radio frame.

3) The system sets through signaling the SIB1 common messagetransmission period T corresponding to the first terminal as 16 radioframes.

4) A common message transmission time instance of the first terminal isX, and

the radio frame of X meets:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=start subframe time instance SThe transmission time instance X is No. 5 subframe in a radio frame thatmeets the conditions of the above formulas. Therefore, the SIB1 commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalare the No. 5 subframes in radio frames 0, 16, 32, . . . , 16*L, whereinL is a positive integer.

It shall be noted that, the SIB1 is taken as an example herein fordescribing the determination method for the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal. For a common messagesuch as the Paging, the SI message, the RAR message, or the like, thefirst terminal may determine the starting point of the common messagetransmission time instances in accordance with an existing standardmethod, and the first terminal determines the common messagetransmission time instances in a similar way, according to the commonmessage transmission period of the first terminal which is configuredfor the first terminal by the system, which will not be describedredundantly herein.

Corresponding to the method shown in FIG. 1, an embodiment of thepresent disclosure also provides a transmission method for a commonmessage, being executed by a first terminal, and as shown in FIG. 2,including the following steps.

201, the first terminal determines common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal, wherein the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalare a part of time instances of cell common message transmission timeinstances.

202, the first terminal receives a common message sent by a base stationat the determined common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, wherein a bandwidth of frequencyresources used for sending the common message by the base station is nolarger than a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal iscapable of supporting.

The transmission method for the common message provided by theembodiment of the present disclosure, as the used bandwidth of frequencyresources is no larger than the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting when the base station sends the commonmessage at the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal, may effectively ensure reliable reception of thecommon message of the first terminal; and, as the second terminal mayalso receive the common message reliably at these time instances, andapparently, the second terminal may also receive the common message atthe other time instances of the cell common message transmission timeinstances apart from the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, may effectively ensure reliablereception of the common message of the second terminal as well. When thefirst terminal is a low cost MTC terminal and the second terminal is anormal LTE terminal, the transmission method for the common messageprovided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may effectivelyensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and the normal LTE terminalare capable of receiving the common message reliably.

Specifically, the common message transmitted in the embodiment of thepresent disclosure may be a system information block 1 (SIB1) message,system information (SI), a Paging message or a RAR message.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, for a commonmessage sent cyclically, e.g. the SIB1, the SI or the Paging message,the transmission method for common message may further include thefollowing steps.

the first terminal acquires a common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal and a start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, wherein the common message transmission period correspondingto the first terminal is larger than a cell common message transmissionperiod;

in this case, in step 201, the first terminal determines the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to the acquired common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal and the start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal.

Specifically, for the first terminal, of both the common messagetransmission period corresponding to the first terminal and the starttime instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, at least one may be presetproperly, and of course, at least one may also be notified by the basestation, therefore, the first terminal may specifically acquire the twomentioned above in the following ways.

1, Both of the two are preset properly, therefore, the first terminalacquires the common message transmission period corresponding to thefirst terminal and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to presetting.

2, One of the two is preset properly, and the other one is notified bybase station, therefore, the first terminal acquires one of the commonmessage transmission period corresponding to the first terminal and thestart time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal according to presetting; and

the first terminal receives a notification sent by the base station andindicating the other one of the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal and the start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, and the first terminal acquires the other one of the commonmessage transmission period corresponding to the first terminal and thestart time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal according to the notification of thebase station;

3, Both of the two are notified by base station, therefore, the firstterminal receives a notification sent by the base station and indicatingthe common message transmission period corresponding to the firstterminal and the start time instance of the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal, and the firstterminal acquires the common message transmission period correspondingto the first terminal and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to the notification of the base station.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances includes astart subframe time instance and a start radio frame time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances. It shall be noted that,for the first terminal, both of the two may be preset properly, or atleast one of the two may also be notified to the first terminal by thebase station, which is not limited by the present disclosure. In thiscase, the first terminal may determine the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal according to thefollowing formulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=start frame time instance N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=start subframe time instance Swherein X is a common message transmission time instance correspondingto the first terminal, T is the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal, N is the start radio frame timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal, S is the start subframe time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, and mod is modulus operation.

A further detailed description of the transmission method for the commonmessage provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure is givenbelow, with reference to an example that the first terminal is a lowcost MTC terminal and the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal.

Embodiment 1

In this embodiment, a common message transmitted by a base station isSIB1, and as shown in FIG. 3, a transmission method for the commonmessage of this embodiment includes the following steps.

301, the base station determines SIB1 transmission time instancescorresponding to a low cost MTC terminal and other SIB1 transmissiontime instances of cell SIB1 transmission time instances apart from theSIB1 transmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTCterminal according to presetting.

In this step, the base station may determine the SIB1 transmission timeinstances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal according to apreset SIB1 transmission period T-MTC corresponding to the low cost MTCterminal and a start time instance of the SIB1 transmission timeinstances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal, and determine theother SIB1 transmission time instances according to a preset cell SIB1transmission period, a start time instance of the cell SIB1 transmissiontime instances and the SIB1 transmission time instances corresponding tothe low cost MTC terminal.

For example, in this embodiment, the SIB1 transmission period T-MTCcorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal may be 20N ms or 2N radioframes, wherein N is an integer larger than 1, e.g. the SIB1transmission period T-MTC corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal is160 ms or 16 radio frames, the start time instance of the SIB1transmission time instances corresponding to the MTC terminal is No, 5subframe of No, 0 radio frame, the cell SIB1 transmission period is 20ms, and the start time instance of the cell SIB1 transmission timeinstances is No, 5 subframe of No, 0 radio frame.

With reference to an example that the SIB1 transmission periodcorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal is 160 ms, in this step, forthe SIB1 transmission time instances corresponding to the MTC terminaland the other SIB1 transmission time instances determined by the basestation, please refer to FIG. 4. In FIG. 4, numerical values on thehorizontal coordinate represent values of system frame numbers (SFN),each rectangular block represents a subframe, the number in eachrectangular block is the index of the subframe, rectangular blocks withtwills represent SIB1 transmission time instances corresponding to theMTC terminal, and blank rectangular blocks represent other SIB1transmission time instances. The SIB1 transmission period correspondingto the low cost MTC terminal is 160 ms, i.e., 16 radio frames, so theradio frame index for sending the SIB1 message corresponding to the lowcost MTC terminal meets:

SFN mod 16=0, wherein mod is modulus operation.

302, the base station sends the SIB1 at the determined SIB1 transmissiontime instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal and the otherSIB1 transmission time instances, wherein the bandwidth of frequencyresources used for sending the SIB1 at the SIB1 transmission timeinstances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal is no larger thanthe data processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capableof supporting.

In this step, the bandwidth of frequency resources used for sending theSIB1 at the other SIB1 transmission time instances by the base stationis not limited, and is preferably larger than the data processingbandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capable of supporting.

Also taking FIG. 4 as an example, in this step, in the subframesrepresented by the rectangular blocks with twills, i.e., at the SIB1transmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal,the base station needs to schedule the SIB1 message within the dataprocessing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capable ofsupporting, i.e., the bandwidth of frequency resources used for sendingthe SIB1 is no larger than the data processing bandwidth that the lowcost MTC terminal is capable of supporting, and in the subframesrepresented by the other blank rectangular blocks, the base station maynot perform limiting scheduling. Therefore, the low cost MTC terminal iscapable of receiving the SIB1 reliably at the SIB1 transmission timeinstances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal, and a normal LTEterminal is capable of receiving the SIB1 reliably at the SIB1transmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminaland the other transmission time instances.

303, the low cost MTC terminal receives the SIB1 message at the SIB1message transmission time instances corresponding the low cost MTCterminal, and the normal LTE terminal receives the SIB1 message at thecell SIB1 message transmission time instances.

Before the low cost MTC terminal receives the SIB1 message, the low costMTC terminal determines the SIB1 message transmission time instancescorresponding the low cost MTC terminal according to presetting and/orthe notification of the base station. Similarly, before the normal LTEterminal receives the SIB1 message, the normal LTE terminal determinesthe cell SIB1 message transmission time instances according topresetting and/or the notification of the base station.

In this embodiment, the bandwidth of frequency resources used forsending the SIB1 by the base station at the SIB1 transmission timeinstances corresponding to the MTC terminal is no larger than the dataprocessing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capable ofsupporting, so the low cost MTC terminal may reliably receive the SIB1at the SIB1 transmission time instances corresponding the low cost MTCterminal, and the normal LTE terminal may reliably receive the SIB1 atthe cell SIB1 transmission time instances including the SIB1transmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminaland the other transmission time instances, therefore, when it iseffectively ensured that the normal LTE terminal receives the SIB1message reliably, at the same time, the low cost MTC terminal mayperform receiving the SIB1 message reliably.

It shall be noted that, the low cost MTC terminal may perform softinformation combination on the received SIB1 at different timeinstances, so as to improve the reliability of decoding the SIB1message.

Embodiment 2

In this embodiment, a common message transmitted by a base station isSI. In an LTE system, the number of the SI message, the SI messagetransmission window length (si-WindowLength) and the transmissionperiodicity (si-Periodicity) of each SI message are configured by theSIB1 message. The transmission of each SI message has a transmissionwindow, the base station transmits the SI message in the transmissionwindow according to the periodicity set by the system for the SI, andthe base station may transmit the SI message one or more times in one ormore subframes in one transmission window.

As shown in FIG. 5, a transmission method for the common message of thisembodiment includes:

401, the base station predefines SI transmission time instancescorresponding to a low cost MTC terminal.

The SI transmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTCterminal predefined by the base station may be one or severaltransmission subframes, or may also be a transmission window includingat least one subframe. For example, the SI transmission subframescorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal may be one or severalparticular subframes in each cell SI transmission window, or SItransmission windows corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal may be apart of transmission windows of cell SI transmission windows.

402, the base station determines the SI transmission time instancescorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal according to predefinition.

403, the base station sends the SI at the determined SI transmissiontime instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal, wherein thebandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the SI is no largerthan a data processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal iscapable of supporting.

Specifically, when the SI transmission time instances corresponding tothe low cost MTC terminal are transmission subframes, the base stationsends the SI in these transmission subframes, and the bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the SI in these transmissionsubframes is no larger than the data processing bandwidth that the lowcost MTC terminal is capable of supporting. For example, the SItransmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminalare a particular subframe in each cell SI transmission window, e.g., thefirst subframe in each transmission window, in this case, the basestation sends the SI in the subframe, and the bandwidth of frequencyresources used for sending the SI in the subframe is no larger than thedata processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal is capable ofsupporting.

For example, when the SI transmission time instances corresponding tothe low cost MTC terminal is a transmission window, the base station maysend the SI in all the subframes in the transmission window, and thebandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the SI in all thesubframes or in a part of the subframes in the transmission window is nolarger than the data processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminalis capable of supporting.

404, the low cost MTC terminal receives the SI at the SI transmissiontime instances corresponding the low cost MTC terminal.

Before the low cost MTC terminal receives the SI, the low cost MTCterminal determines the SI transmission time instances corresponding thelow cost MTC terminal according to presetting and/or the notification ofthe base station.

Embodiment 3

In this embodiment, a common message transmitted by a base station is aRAR, as shown in FIG. 6, a transmission method for the common message ofthis embodiment includes:

501, the base station predefines RAR transmission time instancescorresponding to a low cost MTC terminal.

The transmission time instances may be a transmission subframe or atransmission window, e.g., the transmission time instances fortransmitting the common message RAR predefined for the low cost MTCterminal by the base station may be the first available downlinksubframe or subframe window subsequent to a determined time instanceafter a message 1 is sent by the low cost MTC terminal.

502, the base station determines the RAR transmission time instancescorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal according to predefinition.

503, the base station sends the RAR at the determined RAR transmissiontime instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal, and thebandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the RAR is no largerthan a data processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminal iscapable of supporting.

504, the low cost MTC terminal receives the RAR at the RAR transmissiontime instances corresponding the low cost MTC terminal.

Before the low cost MTC terminal receives the RAR, the low cost MTCterminal determines the RAR transmission time instances correspondingthe low cost MTC terminal according to presetting and/or thenotification of the base station.

Embodiment 4

In this embodiment, a common message transmitted by a base station ispaging message (Paging), and as shown in FIG. 7, a transmission methodfor the common message of this embodiment includes:

601, the base station receives a paging request message of a mobilitymanagement entity (MME), wherein the paging request message carriescategory indication information of a paging terminal, which may indicatethat the paging terminal is a low cost MTC terminal or a normal LTEterminal.

In this embodiment, the low cost MTC terminal needs to report itscapability to a network side, that is to say, to report the informationindicating that it is the low cost MTC terminal to the network side. TheMME makes the paging request message (i.e., Paging message) sent to thebase station carry the category indication information of the pagingterminal after receiving the reported capability of the low cost MTCterminal, that is to say, the MME needs to notify the base station thatthe terminal to be paged is the low cost MTC terminal or the normal LTEterminal, so that the base station may adopt different modes accordingto different categories of terminal when sending the paging message.

602, when the paging terminal is the low cost MTC terminal, the basestation determines paging message transmission time instancescorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal according to presetting.

In this step, the base station may determine the paging messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the low cost MTC terminalaccording to a preset paging period and a preset start time instance ofthe paging message corresponding to the low cost MTC terminal.Alternatively, the system may set a common paging period, which islonger than the common paging period of the normal LTE terminal, for thelow cost MTC terminal, i.e., a default paging period. If there is adedicated or UE-specific paging period for the low cost MTC terminal,the paging period of the low cost MTC terminal may be the maximal valueor the minimal value of the dedicated or UE-specific paging period andthe common paging period set by the system for the low cost MTCterminal. It shall be noted that, the base station may add a newinformation element (IE), which may be named as defaulyPagingPeriod forMTC IE, in PCCH-Config signaling in system broadcast information, andthe IE is used for setting the common paging period for the low cost MTCterminal.

603, the base station sends the paging message (Paging) to the pagingterminal at the determined paging message transmission time instancescorresponding to the low cost MTC terminal, wherein the bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message (Paging) is nolarger than a data processing bandwidth that the low cost MTC terminalis capable of supporting.

604, the low cost MTC terminal receives the paging message (Paging) atthe paging message transmission time instances corresponding the lowcost MTC terminal.

Before the low cost MTC terminal receives the paging message, the lowcost MTC terminal determines the paging message transmission timeinstances corresponding the low cost MTC terminal according topresetting and/or the notification of the base station.

Corresponding to the aforementioned method embodiments, an embodiment ofthe present disclosure provides a base station, as shown in FIG. 8,including:

a time instance determining unit 10, configured to determine commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to a first terminal,wherein the common message transmission time instances corresponding tothe first terminal are a part of time instances of cell common messagetransmission time instances; anda sending unit 11, configured to send a common message at the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminaldetermined by a time instance determining unit 10, a bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message being no largerthan a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting, so that both the first terminal and a second terminal arecapable of receiving the common message at the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, whereina data processing bandwidth that the second terminal is capable ofsupporting is larger than the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting.

The base station provided by the embodiment of the present disclosuretakes a part of time instances of the cell common message transmissiontime instances as the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, and when sending the common messageat these time instances, the used bandwidth of frequency resources is nolarger than the data processing bandwidth that the first terminal iscapable of supporting, therefore, reliable reception of the commonmessage of the first terminal may be ensured effectively; and the secondterminal may also receive the common message reliably at these timeinstances, and apparently, the second terminal may also receive thecommon message at the other time instances of the cell common messagetransmission time instances apart from the common message transmissiontime instances corresponding to the first terminal, therefore, reliablereception of the common message of the second terminal may also beensured effectively. When the first terminal is a low cost MTC terminaland the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal, the base stationprovided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may effectivelyensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and the normal LTE terminalare capable of receiving the common message reliably.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the sendingunit 11 may be further configured to send a common message at other timeinstances of the cell common message transmission time instances apartfrom the common message transmission time instances corresponding to thefirst terminal, so that the second terminal is capable of receiving thecommon message at the other time instances. Preferably, the bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the common message at the othertime instances by the sending unit 11 is larger than the data processingbandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting, so as toeffectively ensure that the second terminal may reliably receive thecommon message at the other time instances.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, each timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal determined by the time instance determining unit10 may include one or more subframes, in this case, the sending unit 11may be configured to send the common message at the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminaldetermined by the time instance determining unit 10, wherein thebandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the common message inat least one subframe of each common message transmission time instanceis no larger than the data processing bandwidth that the first terminalis capable of supporting.

Specifically, the common message transmitted by the base station may bea SIB1 message, SI, a paging message or a random access response (RAR)message.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the timeinstance determining unit 10 is configured to determine the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to a first terminalaccording to a common message transmission period corresponding to thefirst terminal and a start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal.

Applying to a common message transmitted cyclically, e.g., the SIB1, theSI or the Paging message, alternatively, in an embodiment of the presentdisclosure, the sending unit 11 is further configured to send to thefirst terminal a notification indicating the common message transmissionperiod corresponding to the first terminal and/or the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal, so that the first terminal determines the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to the notification.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances includes astart subframe time instance and a start radio frame time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances; and the time instancedetermining unit 10 may determine the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal according to the followingformulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=Swherein X is a common message transmission time instance correspondingto the first terminal, T is the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the first terminal, N is a start radio frame timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal, S is a start subframe time instance of the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal,and mod is modulus operation.

Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 9, in an embodiment of the presentdisclosure,

the common message transmitted is a paging message;

the base station provided further includes:

a receiving unit 13, configured to receiving a paging request message ofa mobility management entity, wherein the paging request message carriescategory indication information of a paging terminal;

a terminal determining unit 14, configured to determine whether thepaging terminal is the first terminal or the second terminal accordingto the category indication information received by the receiving unit13;

the time instance determining unit 10 is configured to determine pagingmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalif it is determined that the paging terminal is the first terminal bythe terminal determining unit 14;

and the sending unit 11 is configured to send the paging message to thepaging terminal at the paging message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal determined by the time instancedetermining unit 14.

It shall be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, thebase station provided includes a processor and a memory, and theabove-mentioned function units are located in the processor.

Corresponding to the aforementioned method embodiments, an embodiment ofthe present disclosure provides a terminal equipment which may servie asthe first terminal in the aforementioned method embodiments, as shown inFIG. 10, including:

a time instance determining unit 20, configured to determine commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the terminalequipment, wherein the common message transmission time instancecorresponding to the terminal equipment is a part of time instances ofcell common message transmission time instances; and a receiving unit21, configured to receive a common message sent by a base station at thecommon message transmission time instance corresponding to the terminalequipment determined by the time instance determining unit 20, wherein abandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the common message bythe base station is no larger than a data processing bandwidth that theterminal equipment is capable of supporting.

The terminal equipment provided by the embodiment of the presentdisclosure receives the common message at a part of time instances ofthe cell common message transmission time instances, and the bandwidthof frequency resources used for sending the common message by the basestation at these time instances is no larger than the data processingbandwidth that the terminal equipment is capable of supporting,therefore, reliable reception of the common message of the terminalequipment may be effectively ensured.

In an embodiment of the present disclosure, the terminal equipmentprovided is a low cost LTE terminal.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, as shown inFIG. 11, the terminal equipment provided may further include:

an acquiring unit 22, configured to acquire a common messagetransmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment and a starttime instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the terminal equipment, wherein the common messagetransmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment is largerthan a cell common message transmission period;in this case, the time instance determining unit 20 is configured todetermine the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the terminal equipment according to the common message transmissionperiod corresponding to the terminal equipment and the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the terminal equipment acquired by the acquiring unit 22.

Specifically, the acquiring unit 22 may acquire the common messagetransmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment and thestart time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the terminal equipment according to presetting; theacquiring unit 22 may also acquire one of the common messagetransmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment and thestart time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the terminal equipment according to presetting, andreceive a notification sent by the base station and indicating the otherone of the common message transmission period corresponding to theterminal equipment and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the terminal equipment, andacquire the other one of the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the terminal equipment and the start time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances corresponding to theterminal equipment according to the notification of the base station;the acquiring unit 22 may also receive a notification sent by the basestation and indicating the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the terminal equipment and the start time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances corresponding to theterminal equipment, and acquire the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the terminal equipment and the start time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances corresponding to theterminal equipment according to the notification of the base station.

Alternatively, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the starttime instance of the common message transmission time instances includesa start subframe time instance and a start radio frame time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances;

the time instance determining unit 20 is configured to determine thecommon message transmission time instance corresponding to the terminalequipment according to the following formulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=Swherein X is a common message transmission time instance correspondingto the terminal equipment, T is the common message transmission periodcorresponding to the terminal equipment, N is the start radio frame timeinstance of the common message transmission time instance correspondingto the terminal equipment, S is the start subframe time instance of thecommon message transmission time instance corresponding to the terminalequipment, and mod is modulus operation.

It shall be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, theterminal equipment provided includes a processor and a memory, and theabove-mentioned function units are located in the processor.

In another aspect of the present disclosure, as shown in FIG. 12, atransmission method for a common message is also provided, beingexecuted by a base station and including the following steps.

1000, the base station sends a first common message corresponding to afirst terminal.

1001, the base station sends a second common message corresponding to asecond terminal.

The first common message is a common message obtained by simplifying thecontent of the second common message, and a data processing bandwidththat the first terminal is capable of supporting is smaller than a dataprocessing bandwidth that the second terminal is capable of supporting.

According to the transmission method for the common message provided bythe embodiment of the present disclosure, the base station sends thecommon message to the first terminal and the second terminalrespectively, although the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting is smaller than the data processingbandwidth that the second terminal is capable of supporting, but thecommon message sent to the first terminal is simplified compared withthe common message sent to the second terminal, and the demand on thedata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting is met, and the common message corresponding to the secondterminal may be sent normally, therefore, reliable reception of thecommon message of the first terminal and the second terminal may beensured effectively. When the first terminal is a low cost MTC terminaland the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal, the transmissionmethod for the common message provided by the embodiments of the presentdisclosure may effectively ensure that both the low-cost MTC terminaland the normal LTE terminal may reliably receive the common message.

It shall be noted that, the order of the above-mentioned two steps 1000and 1001 is not limited, the first common message and the second commonmessage may be sent either concurrently or sequentially, for example,the base station may send the first common message at first, or send thesecond common message at first.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the firstterminal may be a low cost LTE terminal and the second terminal may be anormal LTE terminal.

That the first common message is a common message obtained bysimplifying the content of the second common message means that thefirst common message is the simplified second common message in fact,that is to say, the first common message is partially identical to thesecond common message, but the information categories included in thefirst common message are less than the information categories includedin the second common message, or, the information size of the firstcommon message is smaller than the information size of the second commonmessage. The first common message corresponding to the first terminal issimplified compared with the second common message, so the reliabilityof receiving the first common message of the first terminal may beeffectively improved.

For example, when the first message and the second common message areSI, the information categories included in the first common message maybe less than the information categories included in the second commonmessage.

Taking it as an example that the second terminal is the normal LTEterminal and the first terminal is the low cost MTC terminal, of course,also applying to other terminals, the second common message may includeone or more SIBs from SIB2 to SIB13, and in terms of capabilitylimitation and service property of the first terminal, the firstterminal may not support or optionally support some SIBs.

For example, if the first terminal does not support multiple radioaccess techniques (RAT), SIB6, SIB7 and SIB8 are not needed. Therefore,when the second common message includes any one or several of SIB6, SIB7and SIB8, the first common message may omit the any one or several, thatis to say, the first common message does not include the any one orseveral. If the first terminal does not support a earthquake and tsunamiwarning System (ETWS) and a commercial mobile alert service (CMAS),SIB10, SIB11 and SIB12 are not needed, therefore, when the second commonmessage includes any one or several of SIB10, SIB11 and SIB12, the firstcommon message may omit the any one or several, that is to say, thefirst common message does not include the any one or several.

If the first terminal does not support a multimedia broadcast multicastservice (MBMS), SIB13 is not needed either, therefore, when the secondcommon message includes SIB13, the first common message may omit SIB13,that is to say, the first common message does not include SIB13. WhileSIB5 is optionally supported by the first terminal, e.g., if some firstterminals may carry out intra-frequency cell selection, SIB5 may besupported by these terminals, on the contrary, if some first terminalsmay not carry out intra-frequency cell selection, SIB5 is not supportedby this type of first terminals. That is to say, when the second commonmessage includes SIB5, the first common message may include SIB5 or not.

Similarly, SIB9 may also be optionally supported by the first terminal,e.g., if some first terminals may communicate with a home base station,SIB9 may be supported by these terminals, on the contrary, if some firstterminals may not communicate with a home base station, SIB9 is notsupported by this type of first terminals. That is to say, when thesecond common message includes SIB9, the first common message mayinclude SIB9 or not. However, SIB2, SIB3 and SIB4 must be supported bythe first terminal, that is to say, the must included SIB2, SIB3 andSIB4 may not be simplified in the first common message.

To sum up, the base station may configure and send the SI to the firstterminal in accordance with Table 1:

TABLE 1 SIB Configuration of SI Corresponding to First Terminal SIBCategory Support or Not SIB1 Support SIB2 Support SIB3, SIB4 SupportSIB5 Optionally Support SIB6, SIB7, SIB8 Not Support SIB9 OptionallySupport SIB10, SIB11, SIB12 Not Support SIB13 Not Support

It shall be noted that, as the number of SIBs supported by the firstterminal is reduced, some optimization may be implemented by the basestation during SI message transmission, so as to facilitate SI messagedetection of the first terminal. For example, the base station may limitthe maximal SI number that the first terminal is capable of supportingto be 4, keep the window size of each SI message detection unchanged,limit the period of each SI message that the first terminal is capableof supporting, etc.

For example, when the first common message and the second common messageare SIB1, the information size of the first common message may besmaller than that of the second common message, specifically, comparedwith the second common message, the number of bits corresponding to someinformation in the first common message is decreased, that is to say,the number of bits corresponding to some information in the first commonmessage is smaller than the number of bits corresponding to thiscategory of information in the second common message. For example, thenumber of bits corresponding to a public land mobility network identitylist (plmn-IdentityList) of the first common message may be smaller thanthe number of bits corresponding to a plmn-IdentityList of the secondcommon message; the number of bits corresponding to a schedulingInfoListof the first common message may be smaller than the number of bitscorresponding to a scheduling information list (schedulingInfoList) ofthe second common message; the number of bits corresponding toscheduling information (SchedulingInfo) of the first common message maybe smaller than the number of bits corresponding to SchedulingInfo ofthe second common message.

It may be understood that, those skilled in the art may also decreasethe number of bits corresponding to other information in the firstcommon message, so that the number of bits corresponding to otherinformation in the first common message is smaller than the number ofbits corresponding to this category of information in the second commonmessage, which is not limited by the present disclosure.

Corresponding to the method embodiment shown in FIG. 12, in anotheraspect of the present disclosure, a transmission method for a commonmessage is also provided, being executed by a first terminal andincluding the following step:

a first terminal receives a first common message sent by a base station,the first common message being a common message obtained by simplifyingthe content of a common message sent to a second terminal by the basestation, wherein a data processing bandwidth that the first terminal iscapable of supporting is smaller than a data processing bandwidth thatthe second terminal is capable of supporting.

Alternatively, the information categories included in the first commonmessage are less than the information categories included in the secondcommon message, or, the information size of the first common message issmaller than the information size of the second common message.

The transmission method provided by the embodiment of the presentdisclosure, as the base station sends the common message to the firstterminal and the second terminal respectively, the common message sentto the first terminal is simplified compared with the common messagesent to the second terminal, and the demand on the data processingbandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting is met, mayeffectively ensure reliable reception of the common message of the firstterminal and the second terminal. When the first terminal is a low costMTC terminal and the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal, thetransmission method for the common message provided by the embodiment ofthe present disclosure may effectively ensure that both the low cost MTCterminal and the normal LTE terminal may reliably receive the commonmessage.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the firstcommon message and the second common message are SI, the informationcategories included in the first common message are less than theinformation categories included in the second common message, forexample, the first and second common messages may meet at least one ofthe following conditions:

the second common information includes SIB6, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB6;

the second common information includes SIB7, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB7;

the second common information includes SIB8, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB8;

the second common information includes SIB10, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB10;

the second common information includes SIB11, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB11;

the second common information includes SIB12, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB12;

the second common information includes SIB5, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB5; and

the second common information includes SIB9, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB9.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first andsecond common messages are SIB1, the information size of the firstcommon message is smaller than that of the second common message, forexample, the number of bits corresponding to a plmn-IdentityList of thefirst common message may be smaller than the number of bitscorresponding to a plmn-IdentityList of the second common message; thenumber of bits corresponding to a schedulingInfoList of the first commonmessage may be smaller than the number of bits corresponding to aschedulingInfoList of the second common message; the number of bitscorresponding to Schedulinglnfo of the first common message may besmaller than the number of bits corresponding to Schedulinglnfo of thesecond common message.

It may be understood that, those skilled in the art may also decreasethe number of bits corresponding to other information in the firstcommon message, so that the number of bits corresponding to the otherinformation in the first common message is smaller than the number ofbits corresponding to this category of information in the second commonmessage, which is not limited by the present disclosure.

Corresponding to the method embodiment as shown in FIG. 12, in anotheraspect of the present disclosure, a base station is also provided, asshown in FIG. 13, including:

a sending unit 30, configured to send a first common messagecorresponding to a first terminal, and send a second common messagecorresponding to a second terminal, wherein the first common message isa common message obtained by simplifying the content of the secondcommon message, and a data processing bandwidth that the first terminalis capable of supporting is smaller than a data processing bandwidththat the second terminal is capable of supporting.

The base station provided by the embodiment of the present disclosuresends the common message to the first terminal and the second terminalrespectively, the common message sent to the first terminal issimplified compared with the common message sent to the second terminal,and the demand on the data processing bandwidth that the first terminalis capable of supporting is met, therefore, reliable reception of thecommon message of the first terminal and the second terminal may beensured effectively. When the first terminal is a low cost MTC terminaland the second terminal is a normal LTE terminal, the base stationprovided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may effectivelyensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and the normal LTE terminalmay reliably receive the common message.

Alternatively, the information categories included in the first commonmessage sent by the sending unit 30 are less than the informationcategories included in the second common message, or, the informationsize of the first common message is smaller than the information size ofthe second common message.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first andsecond common messages sent by the sending unit 30 are SI, theinformation categories included in the first common message are lessthan the information categories included in the second common message,for example, the first and second common messages may meet at least oneof the following conditions:

the second common information includes SIB6, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB6;

the second common information includes SIB7, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB7;

the second common information includes SIB8, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB8;

the second common information includes SIB10, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB10;

the second common information includes SIB11, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB11;

the second common information includes SIB12, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB12;

the second common information includes SIB5, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB5; and

the second common information includes SIB9, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB9.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first andsecond common messages sent by the sending unit 30 are SIB1, theinformation size of the first common message is smaller than theinformation size of the second common message, for example, the numberof bits corresponding to a plmn-IdentityList of the first common messagemay be smaller than the number of bits corresponding to aplmn-IdentityList of the second common message; the number of bitscorresponding to a schedulingInfoList of the first common message may besmaller than the number of bits corresponding to a schedulingInfoList ofthe second common message; the number of bits corresponding toSchedulingInfo of the first common message may be smaller than thenumber of bits corresponding to SchedulingInfo of the second commonmessage.

It may be understood that, those skilled in the art may also decreasethe number of bits corresponding to other information in the firstcommon message, so that the number of bits corresponding to the otherinformation in the first common message is smaller than the number ofbits corresponding to this category of information in the second commonmessage, which is not limited by the present disclosure.

It shall be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, thebase station provided includes a processor and a memory, and theabove-mentioned function units are located in the processor.

Corresponding to the method embodiment which is corresponding to themethod embodiment shown in FIG. 12 and executed by the first terminal,in another aspect of the present disclosure, a terminal equipment isalso provided, which may serve as the first terminal in the methodembodiment, as shown in FIG. 14, including: a receiving unit 40,configured to receive a first common message sent by a base station, thefirst common message being a common message obtained by simplifying thecontent of a common message sent to a second terminal by the basestation, wherein a data processing bandwidth that the terminal equipmentis capable of supporting is smaller than a data processing bandwidththat the second terminal is capable of supporting.

According to the terminal equipment provided by the embodiment of thepresent disclosure, the base station sends the common message to theterminal equipment and the second terminal respectively; the commonmessage sent to the terminal equipment by the base station and receivedby the terminal equipment is simplified compared with the common messagesent to the second terminal, and the demand on the data processingbandwidth that the terminal equipment is capable of supporting is met,therefore, reliable reception of the common message of the terminalequipment and the second terminal may be ensured effectively. When theterminal equipment is low a cost MTC terminal and the second terminal isa normal LTE terminal, the transmission method for the common messageprovided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may effectivelyensure that both the low cost MTC terminal and the normal LTE terminalmay reliably receive the common message.

Alternatively, the information categories included in the first commonmessage received by the receiving unit 40 are less than the informationcategories included in the second common message, or, the informationsize of the first common message is smaller than the information size ofthe second common message.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first andsecond common messages are SI, the information categories included inthe first common message received by the receiving unit 40 are less thanthe information categories included in the second common message, forexample, the first and second common messages may meet at least one ofthe following conditions:

the second common information includes SIB6, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB6;

the second common information includes SIB7, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB7;

the second common information includes SIB8, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB8;

the second common information includes SIB10, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB10;

the second common information includes SIB11, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB11;

the second common information includes SIB12, and the first commoninformation does not include SIB12;

the second common information includes SIB5, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB5; and

the second common information includes SIB9, and the first commoninformation includes or does not include SIB9.

Specifically, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, the first andsecond common messages are SIB1, the information size of the firstcommon message received by the receiving unit 40 is smaller than theinformation size of the second common message, for example, the numberof bits corresponding to a plmn-IdentityList of the first common messagemay be smaller than the number of bits corresponding to aplmn-IdentityList of the second common message; the number of bitscorresponding to a schedulingInfoList of the first common message may besmaller than the number of bits corresponding to a schedulingInfoList ofthe second common message; the number of bits corresponding toSchedulinglnfo of the first common message may be smaller than thenumber of bits corresponding to Schedulinglnfo of the second commonmessage.

It may be understood that, those skilled in the art may also decreasethe number of bits corresponding to other information in the firstcommon message, so that the number of bits corresponding to the otherinformation in the first common message is smaller than the number ofbits corresponding to this category of information in the second commonmessage, which is not limited in the present disclosure.

It shall be noted that, in an embodiment of the present disclosure, theterminal equipment provided includes a processor and a memory, and theabove-mentioned function units are located in the processor.

It should be appreciated for those of ordinary skill in the art that allor a part of the procedures in the above-mentioned embodiments of amethod may be implemented with a computer program instructingcorresponding hardware. The above-mentioned program may be stored in acomputer readable storage medium. The procedures of the embodiments ofthe respective methods mentioned above may be included when the programis executed; and the above-mentioned storage medium includes variouskinds of medium that may store program codes, such as a ROM, a RAM, amagnetic disk, an optical disk, or the like.

It is noteworthy that various units included in the base stations andthe terminal equipment provided by the embodiments of the presentdisclosure are only classified according to functional logic, however,these units are not limited to the classification mentioned above, andany classification that could just implement corresponding functions isacceptable; in addition, the specific names of various function unitsare merely for mutual differentiation, and are not for limitation to thescope of the present disclosure.

The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementation manners ofthe disclosure, rather than limiting the protection scope of thedisclosure. Any change or substitution that is readily conceived for anyone skilled in the art within the technical scope disclosed by thedisclosure shall fall into the protection scope of the disclosure.Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall bedefined by the claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A transmission method for a common message,comprising: determining common message transmission time instancescorresponding to a first terminal, wherein the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal are apart of time instances of cell common message transmission timeinstances, wherein the determining common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to a first terminal comprises: determining thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal according to a common message transmission period correspondingto the first terminal and a start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal; andsending a first common message at the determined common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, abandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the first commonmessage being no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting, so that both the first terminal and asecond terminal are capable of receiving the first common message at thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal, wherein a data processing bandwidth that the second terminalis capable of supporting is larger than the data processing bandwidththat the first terminal is capable of supporting.
 2. The transmissionmethod according to claim 1, further comprising: sending a second commonmessage at other time instances of the cell common message transmissiontime instances apart from the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, so that the second terminal iscapable of receiving the second common message at the other timeinstances, wherein a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sendingthe second common message at the other time instances is larger than thedata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting.
 3. The transmission method according to claim 1, whereineach time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal comprises one or more subframes; andthe sending a first common message at the determined common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, abandwidth of frequency resources used for sending the first commonmessage being no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting comprises: sending the first commonmessage at the determined common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, a bandwidth of frequency resourcesused for sending the first common message in at least one subframe ofeach common message transmission time instance being no larger than thedata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting.
 4. The transmission method according to claim 1, furthercomprising: sending to the first terminal a notification, whichindicates the common message transmission period corresponding to thefirst terminal and/or the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal.
 5. Thetransmission method according to claim 4, wherein the sending to thefirst terminal a notification, comprises: sending to the first terminalthe notification through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.
 6. Thetransmission method according to claim 1, wherein the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances comprises astart subframe time instance and a start radio frame time instance ofthe common message transmission time instances; and the determining thecommon message transmission time instances corresponding to the firstterminal according to a common message transmission period correspondingto the first terminal and a start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalcomprises: determining the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal according to the following formulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=S wherein X is a common messagetransmission time instance corresponding to the first terminal, T is thecommon message transmission period corresponding to the first terminal,N is the start radio frame time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, S isthe start subframe time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal, and mod is modulusoperation.
 7. The transmission method according to claim 1, wherein thefirst common message is system information block 1, system information,or a paging message.
 8. The transmission method according to claim 7,wherein the first common message is a paging message; the transmissionmethod further comprises: receiving a paging request message of amobility management entity, wherein the paging request message carriescategory indication information of a paging terminal; determiningwhether the paging terminal is the first terminal or the second terminalaccording to the category indication information; the determining commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to a first terminalcomprises: determining paging message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal if it is determined that the pagingterminal is the first terminal; the sending a first common message atthe determined common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal comprises: sending the paging message to thepaging terminal at the determined paging message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal.
 9. A base station,comprising: a processor, configured to determine common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to a first terminal, whereinthe common message transmission time instances corresponding to thefirst terminal are a part of time instances of cell common messagetransmission time instances, wherein the processor determines the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminalaccording to a common message transmission period corresponding to thefirst terminal and a start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal; and atransmitter, configured to send a first common message at the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the first terminaldetermined by the processor, a bandwidth of frequency resources used forsending the first common message being no larger than a data processingbandwidth that the first terminal is capable of supporting, so that boththe first terminal and a second terminal are capable of receiving thefirst common message at the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, wherein a data processing bandwidththat the second terminal is capable of supporting is larger than thedata processing bandwidth that the first terminal is capable ofsupporting.
 10. The base station according to claim 9, wherein thetransmitter is further configured to send a second common message atother time instances of the cell common message transmission timeinstances apart from the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal, so that the second terminal iscapable of receiving the second common message at the other timeinstances, wherein a bandwidth of frequency resources used for sendingthe second common message at the other time instances by the transmitteris larger than the data processing bandwidth that the first terminal iscapable of supporting.
 11. The base station according to claim 9,wherein each time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal comprises one or moresubframes; and the transmitter is configured to send the first commonmessage at the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal determined by the processor, a bandwidth offrequency resources used for sending the first common message in atleast one subframe of each common message transmission time instancebeing no larger than the data processing bandwidth that the firstterminal is capable of supporting.
 12. The base station according toclaim 9, wherein the transmitter is further configured to send to thefirst terminal a notification indicating the common message transmissionperiod corresponding to the first terminal and/or the start timeinstance of the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the first terminal.
 13. The base station according to claim 12,wherein the transmitter is configured to send to the first terminal thenotification through Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.
 14. Thebase station according to claim 9, wherein the processor is configuredto determine the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the first terminal according to the following formulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=S wherein X is a common messagetransmission time instance corresponding to the first terminal, T is thecommon message transmission period corresponding to the first terminal,N is a start radio frame time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminal, S is astart subframe time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal, and mod is modulusoperation.
 15. The base station according to claim 9, wherein the firstcommon message is system information block 1, system information, or apaging message.
 16. The base station according to claim 15, wherein thefirst common message is a paging message; the base station furthercomprises: a receiver, configured to receiving a paging request messageof a mobility management entity, wherein the paging request messagecarries category indication information of a paging terminal; theprocessor is configured to determine whether the paging terminal is thefirst terminal or the second terminal according to the categoryindication information, and determine paging message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the first terminal if it is determined thatthe paging terminal is the first terminal; the transmitter is configuredto send the paging message to the paging terminal at the paging messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the first terminaldetermined by the processor.
 17. A terminal equipment, comprising: aprocessor, configured to determine common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the terminal equipment, wherein the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the terminalequipment are a part of time instances of cell common messagetransmission time instances, wherein the processor is configured toacquire a common message transmission period corresponding to theterminal equipment and a start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the terminal equipment,wherein the common message transmission period corresponding to theterminal equipment is larger than a cell common message transmissionperiod, and determine the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the terminal equipment according to the common messagetransmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment and thestart time instance of the common message transmission time instancescorresponding to the terminal equipment; and a receiver, configured toreceive a first common message sent by a base station at the commonmessage transmission time instances corresponding to the terminalequipment determined by the processor, wherein a bandwidth of frequencyresources used for sending the first common message by the base stationis no larger than a data processing bandwidth that the terminalequipment is capable of supporting.
 18. The terminal equipment accordingto claim 17, wherein the processor is configured to acquire the commonmessage transmission period corresponding to the terminal equipment andthe start time instance of the common message transmission timeinstances corresponding to the terminal equipment according topresetting; or receive a notification sent by the base station andindicating the common message transmission period corresponding to theterminal equipment and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instance corresponding to the terminal equipment, andacquire the common message transmission period corresponding to theterminal equipment and the start time instance of the common messagetransmission time instances corresponding to the terminal equipmentaccording to the notification of the base station.
 19. The terminalequipment according to claim 18, wherein the notification is sentthrough Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling.
 20. The terminalequipment according to claim 17, wherein the start time instance of thecommon message transmission time instances comprises a start subframetime instance and a start radio frame time instance of the commonmessage transmission time instances; and the processor is configured todetermine the common message transmission time instances correspondingto the terminal equipment according to the following formulas:(radio frame index of X)mod T=N(subframe index in radio frame of X)=S wherein X is a common messagetransmission time instance corresponding to the terminal equipment, T isthe common message transmission period corresponding to the terminalequipment, N is the start radio frame time instance of the commonmessage transmission time instance corresponding to the terminalequipment, S is the start subframe time instance of the common messagetransmission time instance corresponding to the terminal equipment, andmod is modulus operation.